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Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross Site Scripting - Attribute (XSS-Attribute)
Cross Site Scripting - href (XSS-href)
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CSRF
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File upload
Clickjacking
Ratelimiting (Brute-force login)
HttpOnly Session Hijacking XSS
Exposed docker daemon
SQLI (Union)
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URL Redirection
URL Redirection - Harder
URL Redirection - Harder-2
Formula Injection
Client Side Template Injection (CSTI)
CORS exploitation
Parameter Binding
Local File Inclusion 1 (LFI-1)
Local File Inclusion 2 (LFI-2)
Local File Inclusion 3 (LFI-3)
Remote File Inclusion (RFI)
Content-Security-Policy (CSP)
Session Puzzling
Command Injection (CMD)
Command Injection 2 (CMD-2)
Command Injection 3 (CMD-3)
Command Injection 4 (CMD-4)
Command Injection Blind (CMD-Blind)
Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Server Side Template Injection (SSTI)
Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)
Deserialisation Yaml (DES-Yaml)
Deserialisation Pickle (DES-Pickle)
Deserialisation Pickle 2 (DES-Pickle-2)
GraphQL DOS
GraphQL IDOR
GraphQL Injections
GraphQL Introspection
GraphQL Mutations
JWT Null
JWT Secret
Race Condition
Race Condition File-Write
DoS Regex
Information Leakeage in Comments
Information Leakeage in Metadata
Auth Bypass
Auth Bypass - 1
Auth Bypass - 2
Auth-bypass - 3
Auth-bypass - Simple
Untrusted Sources (XSSI)
TLS Downgrade
Client Side Restriction Bypass
Client Side Restriction Bypass - Harder
Credentials Guessing
Python - Credentials Guessing
NodeJS - Credentials Guessing
Java - Credentials Guessing
Credentials Guessing - 2
CSS Injection (CSSI)
Prototype Pollution
Right To Left Override (RTLO)
Ldap Injection
Ldap Injection - harder
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Java - Credentials Guessing

Running the app Java

First make sure java is installed on your host machine. After installation, we go to the folder of the lab we want to practice. "i.e /skf-labs/XSS, /skf-labs/RFI/" and run the following command:
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$ ./mvnw spring-boot:run
Copied!
Now that the app is running let's go hacking!

Reconnaissance

It is very common to use very guessable and weak usernames and passwords because they are easier to use and remember. However, this ease for the users becomes a great advantage for potential attackers who are trying to crack the user's credentials. It is pretty easy for them to guess or brute force many different credentials until they get to the right ones.
When we start the application we can see that there is a login form.
If we try with some wrong and random credentials such as: [ admin:admin ], we don`t get access to the inside of the website.

Exploitation

Provided that the username will be 12345, we will use Burp in order to brute force the password and discover it. We use the "Intruder" functionality and we will load a prefixed dictionary with multiple usernames that will be tried against the website one by one.
If we check the lenght of the different HTTP responses for each of the password that Burp tried, we find that there's one with a different length than the rest of the possibilities:
We found something promising!
Now, if we try this password as the credential in the login form we get access to the inside of the website:
And goal achieved!

Additional sources

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_User_Enumeration_and_Guessable_User_Account_(OWASP-AT-002)
www.owasp.org
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Running the app Java
Reconnaissance
Exploitation
Additional sources